Is Apache Geronimo ready for primetime?

Apache Geronimo, the J2EE server project of the Apache Software Foundation was founded, in August 2003. It seems to have progressed quite well although at a lot slower pace than what most J2EE enthusiasts had hoped for.

Gluecode, the company behind Geronimo was bought by IBM some time back and IBM has now even released WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE), based on the core open source technology from Apache Geronimo application server.

Paul Buck, Director of Gluecode Development at IBM said in a recent interview that “The WAS CE announcement sends a strong signal to the Apache Geronimo community that an ISV thinks they are doing great work, and that Geronimo is ready to take its place in the industry as a top-notch run time that supports a certified J2EE container.”

“With IBM and a diverse open source community already backing Apache Geronimo, I don’t think any other open source app server enjoys the same community investment in both engineering time and proven technology contributions.“

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Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php and you would know why having IBM backing Geronimo makes Geronimo a J2EE server ready for primetime. Or else who would give away 42 Plasma TVs and 5 Sony PSPs just for downloading Geronimo.